The World Beyond BetterMost > The Culture Tent
In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
It's okay with me to stray away from discussing the NY for a bit. . .I was very disappointed with their comic issue. Didn't laugh once.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 05, 2020, 09:01:23 pm ---It's okay with me to stray away from discussing the NY for a bit. . .I was very disappointed with their comic issue. Didn't laugh once.
--- End quote ---
Over dinner I read the article about early animation. I had no idea animation existed so early in the history of movies.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on January 05, 2020, 09:01:23 pm ---It's okay with me to stray away from discussing the NY for a bit. . .I was very disappointed with their comic issue. Didn't laugh once.
--- End quote ---
I haven't even flipped through it. At first I was eager to see it, then I remembered I don't like most of the cartoons in the regular magazine. I thought maybe I would jump right to a Roz Chast section, if there is one, and go through that.
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 05, 2020, 09:36:59 pm ---Over dinner I read the article about early animation. I had no idea animation existed so early in the history of movies.
--- End quote ---
That sounds interesting.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on January 06, 2020, 12:37:09 pm ---I haven't even flipped through it. At first I was eager to see it, then I remembered I don't like most of the cartoons in the regular magazine. I thought maybe I would jump right to a Roz Chast section, if there is one, and go through that.
--- End quote ---
Adam Gopnik's profile of her was very funny to me. I read it over lunch, and I couldn't stop laughing (I'm still laughing). People looked at me funny.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on January 06, 2020, 02:36:43 pm ---Adam Gopnik's profile of her was very funny to me. I read it over lunch, and I couldn't stop laughing (I'm still laughing). People looked at me funny.
--- End quote ---
Adam Gopnik profiled Roz Chast? In my reference above, I just meant I figured there'd be a section of her stuff amid all the lesser cartoons. I've definitely got to open that issue! :o :D
When I was in San Francisco a couple of years ago, a gallery near my hotel had a Roz Chast show going on. It was kind of a hectic trip and I didn't make it there, but I always kind of wish I had.
Hers aren't the only funny NYer cartoons, but she's by far the most reliably funny/interesting cartoonist among a lot of kind of mediocre ones.
Given how high the bar is for publishing articles, stories, reviews and essays in the New Yorker (and poetry, I assume, though in that case I don't know) it's kind of amazing how the cartoons are pretty meh and many of the Shouts & Murmurs aren't funny (though some are).
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version